Wasfi al-Tal

Wasfi al-Tal (1919-28 November 1971) was the Prime Minister of Jordan from 28 January 1962 to 27 March 1963 (succeeding Bahjat al-Talhouni and preceding Samir al-Rifai), from 14 February 1965 to 4 March 1967 (succeeding Bahjat al-Talhouni and preceding Hussein ibn Nasser), and from 28 October 1970 to 28 November 1971 (succeeding Ahmad Toukan and preceding Ahmad al-Lawzi).

Biography
Wasfi al-Tal was born in 1919 in Irbid, Jordan, and he served in World War II as a captain in the British Army. In 1948, he served in the Arab Legion during the Israeli War of Independence, and he later entered politics under King Abdullah of Jordan. al-Tal served as ambassador to Germany, Iran, and Iraq, and in the 1960s he served as Prime Minister under King Hussein I of Jordan multiple times. He was Prime Minister during Black September in Jordan in 1971, and he was said by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to have personally tortured and executed their commander in Jordan Abu Ali Iyad. On 28 November 1971 al-Tal was gunned down by four Black September Organization assassins in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel of Cairo, Egypt in revenge for the death of Abu Ali Iyad, the first victim of the militant group.